Topic: Question about making a replacement without Discord

Posted under Site Bug Reports & Feature Requests

The guidance for uploading a replacement for a rejected upload says

Alternate method (only preserves favorites, not comments, votes etc.)
1. Upload the replacement image as a new post
2. Flag the old post with "Duplicate or inferior version of another post" and enter the post id for the new post in the provided field

But this evidently cannot be done once the old post is deleted. Is this only meant for cases of replacing a post that wasn't deleted?

abel said:
The guidance for uploading a replacement for a rejected upload says

Alternate method (only preserves favorites, not comments, votes etc.)
1. Upload the replacement image as a new post
2. Flag the old post with "Duplicate or inferior version of another post" and enter the post id for the new post in the provided field

But this evidently cannot be done once the old post is deleted. Is this only meant for cases of replacing a post that wasn't deleted?

A replacement post is just so that the comments(and upvotes and favs) stays in place without having to delete a post with the "duplicate or inferior" flag, that is correct
You can still do that and it would very much align with what has been done on e6(both places) for years, it wouldn't be too much of a problem

Method 1 is super okay, you could attach to the description something like "better version of post #numberID"
Method 2 doesn't work unless the post has not been deleted yet

You can ask here which i can make one for you or someone who has the replacement permission do it for you
https://e6ai.net/forum_topics/596